Special receptacle or package – Structural features for vertical stacking – i.e. – similar... – Having specified means for nesting instead of stacking
Patent
1993-12-22
1995-09-26
Pollard, Steven M.
Special receptacle or package
Structural features for vertical stacking, i.e., similar...
Having specified means for nesting instead of stacking
206503, 206511, B65D 2100
Patent
active
054528038
ABSTRACT:
A shipping container adapted to be stacked upon a like container includes upper surfaces associated with a pair of opposed walls of the container which surfaces include locating means adapted to cooperate with complimentary locating means provided on lower surfaces of a stacked container when those containers are put into vertically stacked longitudinal or transverse alignment, and complementary locating means, as aforesaid, associated with lower surfaces further including complementary guide means to enable stacking to be achieved by relative sliding between a pair of like containers until said upper and lower complementary locating means of the stacked containers are engaged whereafter further relative movement between containers is restricted.
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Doerr Erwin
Pollard Steven M.
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